When Strong Bad's beloved Fun Machine goes up in smoke, he must organize and win his own Battle Royale of the Bands to afford the costly repairs. But he's up against some stiff competition! Can he rock the stage and win the big cash prize, or will he be drowned out by the competition?

{Cut out to see that Strong Bad's band was seen atop Bubs' Concession Stand. The music stops suddenly; only a howling wind is heard in the background. Homestar watches from the ground}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Boooo!

{Cut to a shot of Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: Hmm, tough crowd.

{Cut to a gray background, showing the word BADDEST written in AC/DC-type font. Strong Bad's boxing glove-clad hand is then seen adding a strip of red label tape to the bottom of the word displaying the remainder of the title, OF THE BANDS, on it. Then the usual message, "Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People — New episode every month!", is featured. Cut to The Brick Wall, and Bubs, The Cheat and Coach Z standing in front of it. Bubs and Coach Z each kick The Cheat back and forth between them.}

COACH Z:{rapping}
My name is Coach Z,
And Bubs is my cohort.
Put on your Cheat kickers,
And let's kick-a The Chort!

When asked "what's the word?" after Strong Bad has sabotaged both the Cool Tapes and the Two-O-Duo, The Cheat replies (in cheat-speak) "Schadenfreude." Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from another's misfortune.

Filk is folk music with a fantasy or science fiction theme, and is often based on parodies of well known songs.

Oil spills on land are typically taken care of by spreading an absorbent substance like sand or a specially made product over them, then sweeping it away. Lighting it on fire is occasionally used, though generally only in small spills on water.

Strong Bad refers to the photo of Limozeen by the non-polluted pond as lacking a certain "je ne say wha?". This is a play on "je ne sais quoi", which refers to a quality that cannot be easily identified.

The I-97 is an interstate highway that lies entirely within Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is the shortest Interstate with a two-digit number, and the only Interstate that is entirely within a single county.

Ambergris is a waxy grey substance found in the digestive system of sperm whales, and was formerly used in the manufacture of perfume.

This is the first episode of SBCG4AP for the included Teen Girl Squad not to be created via the player's input.

The nailed-shut door in Marzipan's house initially appeared in Quality Time, where it was just a closet. Here, it is declared to lead to the kitchen.

One of the Awesomeness points in Strong Badia the Free involved setting the clothes on Strong Bad's bed on fire. In this episode, however, attempting to do so will have him remark that they're not flammable.

Marzipan gets upset about the pollution of the pond, but litters thrice by crumpling up what Strong Bad shows her and tossing it away.

The game had an official website, at http://baddestofthebands.com, which has since been taken down.

In this episode, Strong Bad claims to not know how to work the dryer, yet in Strong Badia the Free, he gets a pair of pants from the dryer, claiming he put them in the dryer to shrink them to his size.

According to Strong Sad, Marzipan keeps The Cheat and Strong Mad in Cool Tapes by letting them each write one song per album. This is probably a reference to George Harrison and Ringo Starr's status in The Beatles. A song by Strong Mad can be heard by playing Doin' the Wigglie twice at the Club during extended play.

Technically, since "ply" is a count of the number of layers in toilet paper, half-ply toilet paper would not be possible. It is, however, a reference to the nonabsorbent single-ply toilet paper typically found in public and sport-location restrooms. Seven-ply toilet paper would probably be so thick as to be unusable.

Larry Palaroncini is the only Limozeen band member to speak throughout the whole game.

The live lobster that appears during the game's final events is bright red. However, in the real world, lobsters only become bright red after being cooked.

After winning the contest, Strong Bad still has the entry form.

If you talk to Marzipan or Coach Z after sabotaging Pomstar, Homestar will repeat the whale even if the antenna isn't pointed towards him.

Sometimes, when pulling out your map, a map icon will still be shown after you switch to the "How Awesome I am" chart. This has occurred in every other episode as well.

If the DÖI poster is dug up in extended play, the King of Town's guitar will be heard even though he's not there.

Characters' eyes and mouths will sometimes vanish when entering a scene.

When the metal detector is used at the Cool Tapes stage, Strong Bad will respond as though he is indoors.

When the security robot pops up at Bubs' store, you can take a picture of it with the Instant Camera, and it'll freeze. Bubs won't come over and the alarm will stop.

On the Two-O-Duo stage, if you make Coach Z move left (his left) for his last move, but you skip through the scene of him moving, once the cutscene is over, he will still be on stage left-- in the same place as Bubs, causing their sprites to be mixed together. If you try to examine Coach Z, instead of him dancing, it will just show the empty space where he used to be.

If you wait until after making the speaker fall at the DÖI stage before pushing the prop release button for the first time, the King of Town can still be heard hitting the speaker with his guitar when shown slurping up the missing piece of cable even though he isn't actually shown swinging it.

The line said by Bubs towards the beginning, "It'll be an illegitimate business!", is more than likely to be a reference to a line by Homsar on his secret menu page when you place your cursor over the button for the store: "LEGITIMATE BUSINESS!"

Strong Bad asks Strong Sad how he got the fake sword out of Pompomerania, which reflects upon the events of Strong Badia The Free. He also comments on how Pom Pom re-claimed the katana.

Strong Bad also mentions the trophies won during Homestar Ruiner. Coach Z replies that he sold them for two bucks.

Strong Bad also comments that the shower in the locker room still smells like "Homestar onion soup", referring to the incident in Homestar Ruiner where Strong Bad tricked Homestar into rubbing himself with onions.

Strong Bad mentions the map that he made in Homestar Ruiner which was subsequently eaten by the King of Town in Strong Badia the Free.

The name of Strong Bad's band "DÖI" is a possible reference to Dio, a heavy metal band named after and fronted by Ronnie James Dio.

One of the potential word choices for the umlautted O in DÖI is "Oyster". This is a reference to Blue Öyster Cult which is the band that started the trend of using heavy metal umlauts by placing a nonfunctional umlaut over the "O" in Oyster.

Strong Sad's explanation of the theremin is paraphrased from the Wikipedia page for the instrument. [1]

The cover art and lyrics for "Hugo Left Me" are based on Les Misérables, originally written by Victor Hugo. The album says it's by "The Frollos"; Frollo was a character in one of Hugo's other works, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Strong Bad refers to Homestar as "Very White", a reference to Barry White.

Coach Z standing in front of Marzipan's house holding a boombox references an iconic scene in the 1989 romantic comedy Say Anything..., where Lloyd Dobbler (John Cusack) romances Diane Court (Ione Skye) by standing in front of her bedroom window with a boombox playing "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel.

Strong Bad asking Marzipan if she plans to bite off Pazquel's head, The King of Town's on-stage devouring of bats, and Marzipan's allegation of Limozeen performing bat-head-biting all refer to a notorious episode in the career of heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne.

If you click on the fuse box at the DÖI Stage, Strong Bad remarks how his "frustration was sure to blow a 50 amp fuse." This is a reference to the Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", where there is a line with a similar meaning.

After the speaker has been brought down on the DÖI stage, Strong Bad mentions that it must be Cobain-proofed, a reference to Nirvana member Kurt Cobain, who was known to destroy guitars and speakers at the climax of a performance.

Strong Bad sends his Limozeen contest entry to Staten Island, 10301. 10301 is the zip code for part of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City.

While playing Limozeen's Hot Babelien Odyssey, Strong Bad references John F. Kennedy's inaugural address ("Ask not what your country can do for you...") and the tagline for the movie Alien ("In space, no one can hear you scream").

When searching for Canadian coins in his bed, Strong Bad mentions that he fails to find a single Loonie. A Loonie is a Canadian one dollar coin, called such because is displays a common loon, a type of bird, on the front.

Strong Bad twice mentions rabies, a fatal brain disease sometimes carried by animals such as bats. He also cautions Strong Sad not to foam at the mouth, one of the common symptoms of rabies.

Strong Sad's "designy, foreign, put-it-together-yourself" bookshelves and vaguely Swedish-sounding name "Flurgendroon" are a reference to IKEA and similar companies, who sell furniture disassembled in flat-pack boxes, for the buyer to assemble themselves.

Bubs's diamond-encrusted plantanium record is a reference to diamond and platinum records, which are given to artists for selling a certain number of albums, though the actual number varies depending on location.

Strong Bad's mention that the Gremlin has a smoke screen and missiles is a reference to James Bond's cars, which were typically equipped with similar devices.

Bubs's wish that Coach Z would behave like an O.G. is a reference to O.G. Original Gangster, an album by Ice-T.

Coach Z's doggerel "Yo, what light breaks through yonder window there... it's Marzipan, and she's got yellow hair" is a reference to the famous balcony scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ("But soft! What light from yonder window breaks? 'Tis the East, and Juliet is the sun!"} He also mangles the line "wherefore art thou, Romeo", though since the line means "why are you Romeo?" rather than "where are you, Romeo?", he's misusing it as well.

Bubs's farewell line to Strong Bad, "Rock over London! Rock on Chicago", is a reference to songwriter Wesley Willis, who would often use the lines in his songs.

Strong Sad's plan to become a snooty rock journalist and then sell the rights to the story of his exploits to a snooty independent movie studio refers to Cameron Crowe, who worked for Rolling Stone as a teenager and turned his story into the movie Almost Famous.

Strong Bad says his stage prop is "almost better than a flying pig" and "maybe cooler than a giant robotic demon".

"Flying Pig" is a reference to a prop used in some performances by classic rock band Pink Floyd. It was also used on some of Roger Waters's solo tours.

"Giant Robotic Demon" could be a reference to classic metal band Iron Maiden, who uses elaborate stage props in their concerts, including giant puppets of demons and monsters.

Strong Bad refers to the Gremlin as having plus four armor, while the fake sword is negative zero. This is a reference to items in role-playing games which give a numerical boost (or penalty) to one or more of a character's stats.

In the scene where Strong Bad realizes which characters are left for his band, The King of Town is eating a Wii remote.

Homsar's theremin is labelled "Theremaxxx."; the PAIA Theremax really is a brand of theremin.

At the end of the game, Strong Sad comments that Strong Bad's video game "sounds pretty dangerous". Strong Bad replies, "No. Sounds..." then hums the opening theme to Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, Too? as the camera zooms in on his Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective poster. Dangeresque 3 later becomes the main focus of the next SBCG4AP episode.

The next episode's events are further forshadowed in extended play, when examining the calendar in the computer room makes Strong Bad say "Well, now that I've gotten my broken Fun Machine repaired, maybe today's the day I get to work on Dangeresque 3."

When Strong Bad sees the Gremlin, he claims it has a smoke screen and missiles. This is revealed to be true (sort of) in Dangeresque 3.

Strong Bad contemplates bringing DÖI on tour and trashing the Peasantry Inn in 8-Bit is Enough.